Opinion

Tuesday, 22 November 2016

Twitter suspends account after it couldn’t find a single tweet from user on demonetisation

Twitter India has suspended an account for violating its terms of
use.The decision was taken by the
social networking company after it couldn’t find a single tweet on
demonetization from the handle.

Ever since the government has imposed a ban on currency notes of higher
denomination, every single individual has tweeted about how it’s going to
impact our economy.Some tweeted in
favor of the decision while the rest criticized it.But strangely, the user of the suspicious
account did not tweet anything on the burning issue.A further probe revealed that the same user
avoided other issues in the past as well, like intolerance, odd-even formula,
or even porn ban when the whole nation came together as one to protest against
the ban.Twitter had no option but to
label this account as a bot and delete it.

Speaking to The Unreal Times,
Rajesh Bhalla, the owner of the account, said, “I did not realize a little negligence
on my part would cost me my account.”

“But why did you do this?You
had a Twitter account for heaven’s sake!As a responsible citizen you should’ve voiced your opinion.Why do we have Twitter accounts for?” we
sought a clarification from the offender.

“I don’t know.I don’t have much
knowledge of Indian economy.”

“You don’t have to be an economist to understand if the bank queues are
long.Many explained the long-term
impacts of demonetization on our GDP with graphs and pie-charts, including
those who write movie reviews.You
could’ve at least tweeted about your own experience, or just retweeted a random
tweet of Arvind Kejriwal, because that’s all he has been tweeting about for the
past few days.”

“So what would you do without a Twitter account now?Your life is over.”

“Don’t know.Maybe I will go
home and watch Bigg Boss.”

“Shame!You are a disgrace to
the nation.Go and watch your stupid
reality show.”

“Ok, can I go now?The show will
start in half an hour.”

“Goodness gracious, what time it starts?”

Meanwhile, the incident has shaken Twitter India and it has now decided
to periodically review accounts using human judgment and technology.Sources revealed that it will suspend more
accounts on similar grounds in future.

6 comments:

Haha, thanks Harish! Unfortunately, we don't have enough followers to reach a bigger audience. But then again, sites like Faking News must have done something right that they have such huge follower base.